Tag: Health IT
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Increasing MD Demand for EHRs: What’s the Uproar About? Part 2
In part 1 of this two-part blog series, we explored the current state of physician EHR use and suggested that the root cause of suboptimal physician EHR adoption is related to design issues and implementation planning problems. In part 2 here, we discuss the population health management issues that must be addressed in examining physician…
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Addicted to your mobile device? It could lead to healthy outcomes
When it comes to consumers’ obsessive use of mobile devices to run mHealth apps and get health information, this kind of technology “addiction” might not be a bad thing, so argues… read more Source: Addicted to your mobile device? It could lead to healthy outcomes
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Top Health IT Questions about Windows 8*
Hemang Patel, a Healthcare Strategist with Microsoft, address the key features and benefits of Windows 8 that health IT CIOs need to know. Listen as he cover… Video Rating: 3 / 5 Phoenix-based mobile app developer MediaKube was selected by Phoenix Children’s Hospital as the company who will create this first-of-its-kind mobile healthc… Video Rating:…
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Direct Project Coming to New Jersey Providers
The New Jersey Health Information Technology Extension Center (NJ-HITEC) will be providing its members with the Direct Project capabilities, which allows provider to securely exchange health information over the internet. The New Jersey Health Information Technology Extension Center (NJ-HITEC) will be providing its members with the Direct Project capabilities, which allows provider to securely exchange…
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MGMA Asks HHS to Delay Imposing MU Penalties on Physicians
In an Aug. 21 letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Susan Turney, M.D., president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association, called on Sebelius to embrace a series of actions designed to ease the burden on physicians trying to meet to meet the meaningful use requirements in the HITECH Act, including instituting a moratorium…
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EHR and HIT News for August 22nd
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes updates from MaxMD, who has announced a partnership with NJ-HITEC, news on the formation of a new Podiatry Independent Physicians Association (IPA) that has been formed in Illinois, and finally partnership news from ZirMed, and Catch Data Systems to provide GE Centricity customers with integration into ZirMed’s products. MaxMD…
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MGMA Wants a Moratorium on Penalties for Docs Who Have Completed Stage 1 MU Requirements
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) has expressed their concerns about the current meaningful use environment in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. In the letter they cite a “diminished opportunity for physician practices to meet the requirements for State 2 of the program.” In the letter the MGMA requests an…
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Health IT regulatory expansion creates new job opportunities
As the healthcare IT regulatory landscape continues to expand, so too, do employment opportunities within the industry, according to Bonnie Siegel, a healthcare IT recruiter with Witt/Kieffer. read more Source: Health IT regulatory expansion creates new job opportunities
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Laptop breach helped Beth Israel’s security during Boston Marathon bombing
In one sense, a stolen laptop that cost Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center more than $500,000 in lawyers and crisis experts paid off in helping the hospital deal with security issues in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing in April. read more Source: Laptop breach helped Beth Israel’s security during Boston Marathon bombing
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Consumers feel pinch as hospitals add telemedicine services
Reimbursements from the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund have soared as hospitals add telemedicine services–and those costs are being passed on to consumers. A companion to the federal Universal… read more Source: Consumers feel pinch as hospitals add telemedicine services